Sam Vaknin invented this diagnosis "inverted narcissist" and based it on previous ones, such as covert narcissist. Later, psychologists and scholars picked up on his ideas (without giving him credit, as usual) and now we have co-dependent narcissist, co-narcissist and a million other names for the same type of person.

Vaknin wrote: "To "qualify" as an inverted narcissist, you must CRAVE to be in a relationship with a narcissist, regardless of any abuse inflicted on you by him/her. You must ACTIVELY seek relationships with narcissists and ONLY with narcissists, no matter what your (bitter and traumatic) past experience has been. You must feel EMPTY and UNHAPPY in relationships with ANY OTHER kind of person. Only then, and if you satisfy the other diagnostic criteria of a Dependent Personality Disorder, can you be safely labeled an "inverted narcissist".

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